Arrr maties, t'night I return ta me scheme of rhymes and I do apologise fer tha confusion over tha past few days.

Me research consumed me and sadly tha poetry I produced was not of quality. In fact having broken meself with free verse, I actually found it difficult to grasp the rhymes today and had to go through much meditation and retweaking before this release was ready.

However, I am proud of me efforts and I hope that ye'll enjoy this piece. It is a little lighter on the darkness than I would normally go, but since the theme is "Bard Week". I intend to do a Dark Bard's portrayal of the Great Crusade.

Tomorrow, I will probably release something more light-hearted as a break from darkness might do everyone good ^^

And as a result of this bloody slaughter in killing people who did nothing to us, they flew airplanes into our buildings a century later. If we had not done this then perhaps 9/11 may never have happened.

Hard to rhyme, oh no, we must pull out the docter Seuss books quick! Lol, just kidding, I'm kinda hyper today. The rhymes and fluency were amazing, and this poem did send a small shiver down my spine. Good job as usual!

Certainly does fit into the time period, but I get a couple different vibes from this: it seems to be both a warning to those who would follow in their path, or just a warning in general, as well as the telling of a story. And, although this is just my opinion, the split focus seems to detract a little from the overall quality. It means it's less of either a story or a warning... but in either case, it certainly isn't a poor piece of work.

I don't mean to bash; only share an opinion. I still think it's quite a good piece of writing, but not quite as strong as it might be able to be. That being said, I wouldn't, under any circumstance, expect a revision. Glad to see the return to the rhymes, looking forwards to your work!

Thank you and I do understand that, however it was primarily a story with the ending to serve as a warning which is why it switched inbetween. At the same time, it was a toss up between writing the fanciful happy stuff, the outright demonic stuff or something inbetween. Since I chose to write about the crusades I didn't want to make it another slash and gash type poem where I talk about the killing and blood spilling, which we all know happened.

So I decided to focus on the priests instead and the demonism behind that. Speaking of which I'll probably tackle one on the Lord of Flies soon xD

Thank you, I think that the problem is accent. When I wrote this entire piece I was strictly using a Death Metal growl to read the whole thing out and it flowed when I read it in that voice. Also the comma at the end of "though pure at heart" appears to be a mistake which might also have caused the problem, but no one pointed it out. So thank you very much. Generally there should be no punctuation at the end of a line unless it is a ;, ? or ...

Any other punctuation will throw the reader off I'm afraid

I shall fix the comma now and I thank you kindly for reading and enjoying my work ^^

Might be the accent. I kept reading it like I normally would, and the stanza kept throwing me off. And does that mean I've been writing my poetry wrong, seeing as I sometimes end my lines with a period?

You're welcome.

On another note, everytime I read the description under one of your poems, I always read it with a Jack Sparrow accent. It's kinda weird. Thought I'd let you know.